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Title:
Boundary Effects in Chiral Polymer Hexatics

Abstract: Boundary effects in liquid-crystalline phases can be large due to long-ranged
orientational correlations. We show that the chiral hexatic phase can be locked
into an apparent three-dimensional N+6 phase via such effects. Simple numerical
estimates suggest that the recently discovered "polymer hexatic" may actually
be this locked phase.